Simon Howard (Fraggle)

Simon Howard (alias Fraggle) is a programmer and level designer from England. He has contributed to many Doom projects over the years. At the 2015 Cacowards he became the recipient of the Espi Award for Lifetime Achievement.

History
Simon worked on several unreleased levels before forming Team Onslaught in 1997 with Tom Robinson (Mystican), Luke Cama (Spike) and Vincent Fong (Vicious). While part of Team Onslaught, he developed a launcher called Onslaunch and contributed to the deathmatch megawads Decamatch and Decamatch 2. After Team Onslaught dissolved, he contributed to Execution DM along with several former Onslaught members.

Following the release of the Doom source, Simon created his own port, sfdoom, based on the DOS port of the source code by Chi Hoang. This work was later abandoned and he developed a new port, SMMU, based on the source code to MBF. As part of SMMU, he created a scripting language called FraggleScript. FraggleScript was later adopted in the PrBoom (until 2.3.1), Eternity, Doom Legacy and GZDoom source ports. Currently, Simon is working on Chocolate Doom, a source port that aims to emulate vanilla Doom as closely as possible.

In 2001, Simon took the lead role in the development of the Freedoom project, a project aiming to create a complete free IWAD file.

Community contributions
Simon has contributed to the Doom community in several ways. He was once an operator on several IRC channels; however he now only rarely uses IRC. He is a moderator on the Doomworld forums and a sysop on the Doom Wiki.

1997

 * Decamatch
 * MAP02: Bridges of Doom
 * MAP05: Ziggurat
 * MAP10: The Sewers (with Tom Robinson (Mystican), Luke Cama (Spike) and Vincent Fong (Vkiller))

1998

 * Decamatch: II Annihilation
 * MAP01: Frags 'a' lot
 * MAP05: Metallica
 * MAP08: Ocean Wave
 * DM6: The Darkish zone
 * WadPtr
 * Onslaunch
 * SMMU

2000

 * Execution DM
 * MAP11: Nihilist
 * MAP14: Fast Frag 2000 1st Blood (with Luke Cama (Spike), Nick Baker (NiGHTMARE) and Schronzki)
 * MAP15: Fast Frag 2000 2nd Blood (with Luke Cama (Spike), Nick Baker (NiGHTMARE) and Schronzki)

2001

 * 10 Sectors Part 2
 * MAP03
 * Green fish status bar face replacement
 * BSP (blockmap compression patch)
 * Freedoom

2005

 * Doom face -> Man
 * Fragglicution
 * LMPIT demo editor
 * Chocolate Doom

2006

 * British Doom Localisation Patch
 * Binary ripple counter
 * Vanilla Batman Doom fix
 * The Ultimate WAD.BAT

2007

 * PC speaker sound effect format
 * External statistics driver

2008

 * bsdmidi
 * chex.exe dehacked patch

2010

 * French Doom translation
 * Doom 2 French Version binary patch
 * Freedoom leftovers

2012

 * Logitech Wingman Warrior external driver
 * Doom External Control API

2013

 * Computer Deathmatch 2.0
 * Gravis Ultrasound patches

2014

 * DeathManager! v1.5 extra configs
 * Solo network driver

2017

 * Heretic Upstart Mapping Project

2018

 * DMXGUS Gonna Give it to Ya
 * Game Engine Black Book: Doom (proofreader)

2019

 * DEH 9000
 * Minimalist IWAD
 * Minimalist IWAD

2020

 * The Modest Mapping Challenge
 * MAP10: UAC Outpost 47